Microsoft Mgmt Deteriorates GitHub UX - Goodbye Perf and Progressive Enhancement?

Mu-An Chiou writes @muan:

"React got pushed down from Microsoft management and most of us on the [GitHub] front-end team quit."

muan.co/posts/javascript

#webperf #ProgressiveEnhancement #github #Microsoft

JavaScript dos and donts @ Mu-An Chiou

Do When the core functionality of a feature cannot function with only HTML. When the core functionality of a feature can benefit from some JavaScript. Start with only HTML, then progressively enhance it, so it can still work without Jav...

^{Mu-An Chiou}

#Catima 2.32.1 is out!

This fixes a regression in 2.32.0 which could break text display in the add dialog in non-English languages which I sadly missed in review: github.com/CatimaLoyalty/Andro…

It also contains some translation updates that were submitted between the last release and just now.

Coming soon to an app store near you :)

#Android #IzzyOnDroid #GooglePlay #GitHub

Fix text wrapping on add dialog by TheLastProject · Pull Request #2142 · CatimaLoyalty/Android

Before After

^GitHub

🆕 blog! “GitHub's Copilot lies about its own documentation. So why would I trust it with my code?”

In the early part of the 20th Century, there was a fad for "Radium". The magical, radioactive substance that glowed in the dark. The market had decided that Radium was The Next Big Thing and tried to shove it into every product. There …

👀 Read more: shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/10/githu…
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#AI #github #LLM

Something I really like about Forgejo is how seriously they are taking software freedom.
- They use Forgejo itself as their git forge, not GitHub
- No reliance or linking to proprietary corporate services such as Patreon, Twitter, Facebook etc. They use Mastodon and Liberapay.
- No Dockerhub, their OCI images are on Codeberg.
- No Discord! (really hate how many FOSS projects use it)
- Their documentation does not recommend proprietary developer tools such as VSCode or Sublime Text.
- They recently switched to a copyleft license

Very refreshing, considering how many other popular git forges are either proprietary or "open-core"

#Forgejo #Codeberg #FOSS #Git #GitHub

#Catima 2.31.1 is out!

This is a very minor release, containing a community-contributed fix for the back gesture on the home screen dismissing both the keyboard and clearing the search. Long story short, you can now hide the keyboard without clearing the search, allowing for easier browsing of your cards.

It also contains some minor community-contributed cleanups.

Available now on #GitHub, very soon on #IzzyOnDroid and hopefully soon on other supported app stores.

#Android #FOSS

Three hours ago #Github released an "AI Autofix" feature: github.blog/news-insights/prod…

Now their entire system is completely offline.

Oops.

Found means fixed: Secure code more than three times faster with Copilot Autofix - The GitHub Blog

With Copilot Autofix, developers and security teams can keep new vulnerabilities out of code and confidently remediate their backlog security debt.

^{Mike Hanley (The GitHub Blog)}

A man sits alone, slumped at a desk, his knuckles pressed hard into his eye sockets. He is the last remaining employee. All the engineers have been made redundant.

"Copilot, please fix our production system", weeps the #Github manager, as desperate tears leak through his hands.

"Certainly, sir, I will apply the recommended hot patch immediately" replies the system, and yet another indicator flashes red on the status page.

Everyone else just staring at the github status page?

githubstatus.com/

#github

@markuswerle @jakob @pluralistic This is how I interpret the situation: #GitHub offers open source programs free access to GitHub actions today exactly as it did in the past. This access is limited in CPU performance and parallelism. It always was. All free CI services do this.

The #curl project was bumped to a fancier account to give us more actions powers: more CPU and more parallelism.

That is them doing us a favor and them supporting us, not the other way around.

"This is not a bug, but a feature." -MIcrosoft.

trufflesecurity.com/blog/anyon…

#github #LeaveGithubAlready

Anyone can Access Deleted and Private Repository Data on GitHub ◆ Truffle Security Co.

You can access data from deleted forks, deleted repositories and even private repositories on GitHub. And it is available forever. This is known by GitHub, and intentionally designed that way.

^{trufflesecurity.com}

In just a couple of weeks, Carie Fisher and Jesse Dugas from the GitHub Accessibility team will be sharing the accessibility features of GitHub Copilot that you can use to enhance your own projects.

Mark your calendars for July 23, 2024, 1pm ET
a11ytalks.com/posts/2024-jul
#A11y #Accessibility #A11yTalks #Drupal #GitHub #Copilot

Why #curl closes PRs on #GitHub

daniel.haxx.se/blog/2024/06/11…

Our #GAAD edition In-Process #blog is out, featuring all the news on #NVDA 2024.2beta 1, the amazing mini-documentary @github made our new issue template and more!

Get on top of all the #GAAD #news here: nvaccess.org/post/in-process-1…

#NVDAsr #Accessibility #Newsletter #GitHub #FOSS #ScreenReader

Catima 2.29.0 is out!

This release adds support for finding barcodes in PDF files[1] and dealing with multiple barcodes. It also properly colours the status bar during usage now.

As always, it's available on #GitHub, will soon be available on #IzzyOnDroid and will slowly roll out to other app stores.

github.com/CatimaLoyalty/Andro…

[1] Not sandboxed yet, help welcome in github.com/CatimaLoyalty/Andro…

#Catima #OpenSource #Android

Sandbox PdfRenderer in a Service with android:isolatedProcess · Issue #1804 · CatimaLoyalty/Android

The Android documentation for PdfRenderer states: If the file is from an untrusted source it is recommended to run the renderer in a separate, isolated process with minimal permissions to limit the...

^GitHub

On this day forteen years ago, #curl switched to using #git and hosting on #github

daniel.haxx.se/blog/2010/03/23…

Are you a software engineer who uses GitHub in your day job, and you want/need to keep a work log including all the PRs you review each week?

This link will show all of them across all repos:
github.com/pulls?q=is%3Apr+rev…

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¿Eres ingenier@ de software que usa GitHub en el trabajo y quieres/necesitas mantener una bitácora de tareas con todas las PRs que revises cada semana?

Este enlace te muestra todas en todos los repos:
github.com/pulls?q=is%3Apr+rev…

#GitHub #SoftwareEngineer #Tip

Use GitHub?

GitHub Customer Research Panel—Feedback shapes everything we do at GitHub.

forms.office.com/Pages/Respons…

#github #webdev #survey

Hey #rust #rustlang bubble - I am giving up maintainership of the "config" crate: github.com/mehcode/config-rs/i…

If someone wants to take over, now's your time.

#maintainer #github #repository 🦀

Please boost to your rustlang bubbles.

Maintainer wanted · Issue #549 · mehcode/config-rs

This project needs more/new maintainers. I took over maintainership in 2019 (IIRC) during a project at my employer back then, because I needed fixes/changes in this crate to fulfill my task at work...

^GitHub

The #curl repo on #GitHub is now forked 6,000 times

github.com/curl/curl

GitHub - curl/curl: A command line tool and library for transferring data with URL syntax, supporting DICT, FILE, FTP, FTPS, GOPHER, GOPHERS, HTTP, HTTPS, IMAP, IMAPS, LDAP, LDAPS, MQTT, POP3, POP3S, RTMP, RTMPS, RTSP, SCP, SFTP, SMB, SMBS, SMTP, SMTPS, T

A command line tool and library for transferring data with URL syntax, supporting DICT, FILE, FTP, FTPS, GOPHER, GOPHERS, HTTP, HTTPS, IMAP, IMAPS, LDAP, LDAPS, MQTT, POP3, POP3S, RTMP, RTMPS, RTSP...

^GitHub

#Catima 2.27.0 is out!

Honestly a fairly small release, mostly small UI tweaks and a minor bugfix. But that's fine, it's great when software updates are boring without major changes so there is nothing new to learn :)

Available on #GitHub right now, on #IzzyOnDroid within 24 hours and on other stores when they update (see the FAQ on catima.app for details).

Hope y'all enjoy it :)

On this day in 1999, 24 years ago, we started hosting the #curl source code on Sourceforge. Like all the cool kids. CVS baby!

In 2010 we switched to using git, hosted on #GitHub: daniel.haxx.se/blog/2010/03/23…

Another article on #OpenSource, this time written by Richard Pope, who was one of the founding members of the UK’s #GDS. There is just so much for which governments can benefit by engaging with the open source communities that they use. Furthermore, the government contributing their work back to the public #GitHub or #GitLab repositories makes the code more secure and drives down the costs for #DigitalGovernment.

digitalpublicgoods.xyz/behave

1. Read this:

“Just as GitHub was founded on Git, today we are re-founded on Copilot.”

github.blog/2023-11-08-univers…

2. Go here:

codeberg.org/

#git #gitHub #codeberg #enshittification #BigTech #cooperative #dev

Universe 2023: Copilot transforms GitHub into the AI-powered developer platform - The GitHub Blog

GitHub is announcing general availability of GitHub Copilot Chat and previews of the new GitHub Copilot Enterprise offering, new AI-powered security features, and the GitHub Copilot Partner Program.

^{Thomas Dohmke (The GitHub Blog)}

Greetings!

I would like to sincerely thank @genewitch , for opening up a ticket for making the #Misskey web interface more accessible to all #Blind & #VisuallyImpaird users.
Comment among the #GitHub thread if anyone has ideas/thoughts, and spread the word!

github.com/misskey-dev/misskey…

More accessibility for visually impaired (blind) users · Issue #10702 · misskey-dev/misskey

many buttons without alt-text for blind or visually impaired persons using screen readers A user on my misskey said: As a #blind / #VisuallyImpaired user of the #Fediverse, at least if using the we...

^GitHub

"By being on GitHub, we reduce friction from the contribution process and we maximize the ability for others to join in and help. We lower the bar. This is good for us."

There have been many criticism towards GitHub on the Fediverse (#GiveUpGitHub). Some even say it's the "Twitter of hosting code". While I understand the rationale, I disagree. Been using GitHub for over a decade now and have hundreds of repositories there. Without GitHub it would be amazingly difficult to manage. I use for-profit products by Microsoft, can you imagine some of them have their place in the world?

I can quit Twitter, Facebook, etc. and self-host almost anything, but not my and the firm's code. Why?

Read: "What if GitHub is the devil?", an article by @bagder

daniel.haxx.se/blog/2021/01/28… #OpenSource #GitHub